Your process produces much higher quality than all the other infinite zoom techniques I've seen so far and is much easier. Here is a summary of the infinite zoom technique using Midjourney and After Effects: Overview - Leverage Midjourney's custom zoom to generate a sequence of incrementally zoomed-in AI images - Import images into After Effects and scale each by 2x to transition seamlessly - Add feathered masks between frames to hide edges - Use exponential keyframe scaling to create natural accelerating zoom Midjourney Process: 1. Start with an extreme close-up prompt e.g. "landscape oil painting, thick brush strokes" 2. Stylize and zoom out 2x multiple times prompting for new images along the way 3. Progressively update prompts to steer images, increasing stylization 4. Export final zoom sequence of 9 images After Effects Animation: 1. Import sequence in order and reverse so widest view is on bottom 2. Scale bottom image 200% to fill frame 3. Turn on next image - it should now match framed size 4. Pick whip layers so scaling is linked 5. Add 100px feathered mask to hide edges 6. Repeat scaling x2 and masking up image sequence 7. Animate exponential zoom over timeline from wide to closeup view 8. Export high-res render for flexibility
Great tut! One tip: You can easily copy/paste the 1st created mask to all others: Select the layer with the mask (M reveals the mask). Select the mask, Copy, Select the new layer(s). Paste. Saved me time, because I did 30 layers ;-)
@@faurc @AndreasDormannMusic could you explain exactly how to do this perhaps? I am struggling with doing it layer by layer as I have like 40-50 layers... ahah ;p
This is precisely what I was looking for! Please make more videos harnessing Midjourney images on After Effects! Great tutorial, thank you, and I just subscribed!!!
Appreciate the tutorial! Been working on a zoom sequence and couldn't figure out really how to blend between images and also get a constant zoom, you nailed it in this, many thanks subbed!
Can you make tutorial about how to put objects on images to zoom out with objects. It would be cool. I’m trying to do it my way, but I really think there is another way I don’t know 😊
Great tutorial! I've generated close to 50 images, but some of them have added objects and are off center from the next image. How would you recommend fixing this? Also, Is it possible to add images if I decide I want to make the video longer?
Thanks so much for this tutorial I just wanted to say that works perfectly but if you use more than 50 layers the whole system just implodes. The limit is 50 images. I did a 71-layer zoom and after the 48th layer it just started to shatter and the images didn't work. Still is a great tutorial and the best I found or a very smooth and constant scale zoom. Thanks.
Thank You! This was the only video that I found helpful on this feature. Everyone else was misleading. It took me literally hours trying to learn but I finally finished my first project. Question: How would I reorder the images if I wanted to start from the painting first?
Export the video and then bring it back in to after effects or premiere and just use a reverse speed to make the video play backwards. It’ll do it without a hitch.
thanks! very clear and helpful. im the newest subscriber now. My problem is: my first layer image just flashed for a second and didn't stay long enough to zoom to the 2nd layer and the video looks like it started from the 2nd layer image, even the cover image of the video is the first layer one. any ideas on how to fix it? thx in advance
i've been using after effects for idk how long and I had no idea you could set scaled keyframes to absolute scale, very annoying that it's generating "filler" keyframes but nice solution.
I’m gonna share this concept in hopes someone (or bobby cause I know you’re reading this 🤣) does this: make an art installation in a city somewhere on a wall that displays this concept at a slow speed so if someone stands there for an hour they’ll see a completely new image. let it run to infinity. 24 completely new images a day forever. THAT would be sick!
How would I go about it if I wanted to reverse the zoom? I have to do it in AE since some of the images will have other animations (so doing reverse in Premiere Pro won't work)
Would be very helpful if you made a Affter effects preset so we only need to drop our Midjourney images and then export! I honestly would find great value in that and even be willing to pay a reasonable price for it. Other wise good video.
You can alt-drag new images over old ones or replace the original images on your drive with new ones. That is the fastest way of doing it if image count is the same,
So basically, you want to create an effect in which your only input is typing in some prompts, but every aspect is done for you? What is the point of everyone uploading this AI generated content if they basically had no hand in actually creating them? That seems a little dissatisfying to me.
Love this video! But I need help! I’ve done everything to a T and for some reason in after effects, it gets stuck on the top layer and only zooms on that one layer. I’m so frustrated, because I’ve done exactly what you said 10+ times in a row, restarting over and over, and I can’t find a solution anywhere online. I’m hoping🤞that you or someone can help me. 😅
You might have the order wrong for the images when you brought them into the new Comp. Try something simple first. Just 2 or 3 images. If that works you can add more to the process.
this was such an awesome tutorial. thank you. how can we extend time ? i stuck on 30 second. also i tried 17 images :D didnt work out so well. but 7 8 images perfecto! thank you
Unfortunately, you need to delete the thousands of key frames and change your composition setting for longer time and then redo the exponential keyframes. Hope that helps.
just played with feature but the panning changes the aspect ratio and is a bit wonky. You can get more resolution from your images but only as long as they get longer or taller, as soon as you go back towards a square ratio it goest back to 1024x1024px. I would suggest just dumping all of your panned images into Photoshop for "stitching using auto-alignment tool" into single image that you can just bring into AE or Premier and add motion keyframes to get to move. I hope they improve this feature. I think it does not work very well
Such a great tutorial thank you for this. Question - As I was going through the process of creating new art based on the custom zoom and I selected the variation of one of the options, the results of that variation request came back without the original zoom element. Have you experienced this and found a workaround? It's a bummer because the variation set is just what I was looking for.
Image variation will change the entire image whereas a zoom only affects the outer frame that borders the image. Along with about 10 or 20 pixels of overlap. The minute you do a variation. It is as if you started over. Hope that helps.
I am pretty good with Premier but it would be a lot of work because the parent-child relationship (pickwip) is really doing all the work. Also the exponential zoom is also really important. After effects is the way to go.
I would suggest creating a new comp and adding just one layer and making the scale zoom in 200%. Do you need to then check to see that the exponential zoom is working
If you are using something other than Midjourney then perhaps. I am stuck with MJ so need to use After Effects (wish automation were still supported in AE)
please tell me if it's just me or do the zoom images get darker and darker to the point of uselessness? I get to about 10 zooms and even on a very bright day the black creeps in so far I can no longer use the images. Is it just me? Or does everyone but me have a magic cure?
My suggestion is to use custom zoom and set your style value very low like 10, then a Midjourny will focus on whatever your prompt is. At that point, you can prompt it to be brighter and happier or something and it will do that.
I have seen that, a way of solving. It is to use an image prompt. Use an image that is bright and open and it will mix in with your current zoom and hopefully get rid of the vignetting of black that seems to be prevalent in Midjourny.
Making zoom video animations off MJ zoomed pics is a hazzle!!! Geeeeez!!! We know HOW to use the zoom functions inside MJ, but creating those amazing videos afterward?? CHRIST!!!
Focused on users that don’t know After Effects. i understand that could have used Nulls and scripting to make it more efficient but for beginners I hope it helps them start to I understand AE. Thanks for feedback
when I do this no matter how many images i have, the first i tried 9, then 27, my after effects video does a huge fast zoom in the beginning and then goes slow about half way through. I then tried all of the easy eases and those don't work to solve my problem, and i even tried the graph editor for the easing but that seemed to just take away from the clip and make it so i would have to double the time. what should I do?
This was super hellpful!!! I just hate that the start of my comps are fast zoom in on the first several photos and you barley get to see them, and then the rest are super slow
You need to use the exponential zoom that I talked about in the video. Select the first key frame and last key frame. Then select exponential zoom. That will fix the issue of the speed being very fast at the few first seconds, and then slowing down like crazy.
@@faurc Thank you! for some reason, that didn't work the first time on the 9, I forgot on the 27 images I did. Greatly appreciated. I'll let you know if I have any other questions but otherwise this is the best video out there and you are so helpful!!
Anyone had any luck with this technique in a longer form? I've got 127 images that i'm trying to fit into a 3min zoom and it's getting messy everytime I double the scale hah
